A PROSPECTIVE, DOUBLE-BLIND TRIAL OF ELECTRICAL CAPACITIVE COUPLING IN THE TREATMENT OF NONUNION OF LONG BONES

Twenty-three patients who had an established non-union of a long bone were entered into a prospective, double-blind trial in which electrica l capacitive coupling was used for treatment. Twenty-one patients comp leted the study: ten who were actively managed and eleven who were man aged with a placebo unit. The non-union healed in six of the ten patie nts who had been managed actively but in none of the patients who had been managed with the placebo unit. This difference in the rates of he aling between the actively managed and the placebo groups is highly si gnificant (p = 0.004).